Author's Note: I do not own BNHA or any elements from other fandoms, I just own my character Keiyu and the village of Tsurukosa. This chapter is a bit short but the next one will be much longer.
Chapter 14: Mysterious Disappearance
Luckily Mama simply thought that the store chose the wrong colors so she didn't get in trouble, which was a relief. Unfortunately, swallowing sand and glasses against her will was the last straw for her. It wasn't very mature, but she'd been ignoring her ability in favor of other areas for almost a whole month. There were some things one did not want to see or feel, and spitting out glasses is one of them. Didn't stop her from using them, but she hated the fact that her own ability could control her body and make her do stuff against her will. Why didn't it just put it as a Quest, or find some other way to make her eat sand?
'Probably because you would've ignored it then' her shoulders dropped at that thought, okay, maybe she should rethink this.
So she did not explore her new level up at all, but she did figure out she can mute it instead, even if it led to a slight headache.
The new schedule would be getting up in the morning at 4:30 and doing her warm-ups before going on roller skates around the village where everything was still closed. Then she would go to school and get a head start on her schoolwork for the day, finishing it by noon like always and walked with Daichi to the path leading up to the dam before going to ballet class.
She actually started to enjoy ballet class because Mebuki-chan seemed to like her and was always eager to hear advice from 'senpai' on stretches and the like.
She was the first girl that Keiyu had hung out with who wasn't caught up in the whole not from the island nonsense. Probably due to the fact the girl herself had recently come to the island, and none of the other girls were interested in getting to know her. Akiko-sensei seemed to be keeping a close eye on the girl though and seemed to find her pink hair a personal insult if the way she glared at it was any indication. Soon Mebuki was called Ami-chan as she didn't like her last name.
"I like Mama's last name better," her mama was all she talked about, that and her neesan who was always tinkering with things. The girl's parents had apparently had a fight about something and he took her to the island since he himself was a former resident.
"We're not going back to the mainland," he would tell her every time she asked about talking to Mama and Neesan and the girl's face would crumple as she burst into tears, and he would take her away from people's sight, only for the same scene to repeat the next day.
The day before had been particularly bad so Keiyu had made plans to celebrate Ami-chan's birthday party after ballet class by taking her out to get some ice cream and giving her the present that Keiyu had Papa buy from the island.
So when Keiyu finished her advanced lessons with Akiko-sensei, she went to the locker room where the gift was and grabbed it. Returning to the room, she expected to see Ami-chan sitting in the corner of the classroom waiting for the instructor to send her over to Keiyu.
But the pinkette was nowhere to be seen and she glanced at the lobby to see if the girl was sitting out there instead for whatever reason, but saw nothing.
"Akiko-sensei, did Mebuki-san call in sick today?" there was a pause to the instructor's movement and she saw a strange expression appear before the woman's lips thinned.
"Mebuki-san's father passed away and she was sent to the mainland to live with her mother," she explained and Keiyu tried not to flinch at the shock she felt.
Ami-chan was gone? She pushed it to the back of her mind and nodded at the instructor, trying not to let the disappointment and hurt she felt.
"Ok, thanks sensei," she joined the other girls in doing some stretches.
Another part of her questioned Akiko-sensei's expression and the fact that the girl's father had died so suddenly, what had happened?
When she got home, she looked through the newspaper and found the girl's father mentioned on page three, he committed suicide by hanging.
'If Ami-chan saw that' she was horrified, couldn't the man have sent his daughter to her mother before doing something like this? Why had he committed suicide though, it didn't make any sense. She took out a piece of paper and wrote a small letter, placing it in a box with the present and an empty label with her address on it.
The next day she approached Akiko-sensei and asked for Ami-chan's address.
"I want to send this birthday present to her and ask if her mom can make her an email address so we can stay in touch," by the look on Akiko-sensei's face, that wasn't going to happen.
"Her mother has expressed her desire to have no contact with anyone on this island and wishes that we leave her to raise her daughter in peace," the cold tone had her flinching and she stared at the ground.
"Yes ma'am," she went to her corner and stared at the dark haired girl there.
"Akiko-sensei wants you to work with me," with an inward sigh, she pushed thoughts of her friend to the back of her mind and started helping the girl.
Another week passed and when another girl named Rei, stopped coming to class, she looked in the newspaper but saw nothing.
She didn't dare question Akiko-sensei on where the girl was in case the woman got mad at her, she still sent her looks when she thought Keiyu wasn't looking.
Then Rei came back a week later and everyone welcomed her back without question. Keiyu didn't know the girl so she didn't approach her, but she found it strange that the girl looked so pale and a bit sick. She also seemed to stumble more and Keiyu realized that the girl could not hear as much as she used to, when before she had perfect pitch and moved in time with the music, now she was behind the others.
Now that she thought about it, Rei is the same age as Ami, and she just celebrated her fourth birthday too.
